Opera won't play Twitch streams
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eimantasks last edited by
I have just installed Opera on Ubuntu 20.04 and I cannot watch Twitch streams, it just throws an error. While it plays YouTube videos just fine, but cannot play live strems also.
on Youtube live streamand Twitch live stream
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U1traVio1et last edited by
Did you download the snap package? Or the .deb file? The snap package runs all the codecs for video playing perfectly on Linux (not widevine for Netflix though) if it was the .deb file you might run into problems
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eimantasks last edited by
@U1traVio1et oooh that's how it is.. Yes, I used .deb file. So, codec licensing issues I suppose? I did try to use Snap version and it works fine indeed, I will keep using that then, thanks!
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leocg Moderator last edited by
@eimantasks None of the possible solutions given in the several other topics about the same problem helped?
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U1traVio1et last edited by
@eimantasks said in Opera won't play Twitch streams:
@U1traVio1et oooh that's how it is.. Yes, I used .deb file. So, codec licensing issues I suppose? I did try to use Snap version and it works fine indeed, I will keep using that then, thanks!
No worries, nothing to do with licensing, I think it's because everything to make the browser work is in the snap package, the .deb file uses other stuff from different sources on your system and that's where opera trips up
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eimantasks last edited by
@U1traVio1et understood! well, I have nothing against snaps and it works perfectly now, so I will just keep using that!
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eimantasks last edited by
@leocg I found a topic with some libraries, and links to those libraries on github, I tried that solution but those libraries might be outdated or I did something wrong, it didn't work.
https://forums.opera.com/topic/33466/videos-in-html5-will-not-work/8
also tried to follow
https://forums.opera.com/topic/35411/cannot-play-videos-in-website/8
which only made me more confused.
But simply using Snap version solves it. -
leocg Moderator last edited by
@U1traVio1et Yes, it has to do with licensing. See https://forums.opera.com/post/150324
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